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Pine Grove, WV

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Overview


Pine Grove is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 344 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Grove is the 223rd largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Pine Grove is a blue-collar town, with 41.90% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pine Grove is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Grove who work in sales jobs (25.71%), food service (10.48%), and management occupations (6.67%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Pine Grove is worth considering.

In Pine Grove, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.67 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Pine Grove doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Pine Grove have a very low rate of college education: just 9.35% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Pine Grove in 2022 was $23,277, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,108 for a family of four. However, Pine Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pine Grove also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.42% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Pine Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Grove residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Pine Grove include German, Polish, Irish, English, and European.

The most common language spoken in Pine Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 15.3% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.7% of all neighborhoods in America.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.3% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 10.7% have Polish ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Pine Grove are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 33.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.0%), and 17.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Pine Grove, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report Polish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (42.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (82.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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